Watching last night's game, Boston would double-team/send help defense as soon as DeMar would turn his back on the defender. So... That answers that, I think. If a team full of defensive perimeter players (Bradley, Wallace, Lee) would be throwing doubles at him, I'm be certain he'll see more in the near future.

I would be shocked to see that consistently. Boston only sent the double when Demar was going against the undersized Avery Bradley. I don't remember seeing any when Demar was guarded by anyone else.

Demar wont have favourable match-ups in the post for a lot of games this season. If you are counting on that to open up Lowry's shot, then Lowry will be limited to a few minute stretches per game.

Until Demar/Gay learn to pass out of their drives, or the team gets a real post presence, Lowry will struggle to get open looks on the perimeter.

Jesus the negative attention and criticism is getting worse and worse.....

Last night Rudy Gay did something few people in NBA history has ever accomplished. He took 37 shots from the field and managed to get only 11 to go through the hoop. Many people took to Twitter to celebrate this accomplishment. Here is some of what people said:

The only blessing and hope we have is there is an idiot at ESPN who thought he was worthy of "Top Performer". I hope that person is also working for the Bobcats or Cavs.

As one can see, people on Twitter understood that Gay had a bad night. Whoever chooses the “top performer” at ESPN.com, though, disagreed. According to this person, Gay was the top performer for the Raptors last night. And who can argue? Gay did score 29 points. And if you only look at points scored in a box score, then you have to agree Gay was the Raptors “best” player.

But if you understand the other numbers in the box score, you would disagree. In fact, if you simply understood the basic rules of basketball you would have to disagree.

And this is the kicker:

As Tom Haberstroh noted, Gay MISSED more shots last night than Kevin Love, Kevin Durant, and LeBron James have TAKEN in a single game this year.

The only blessing and hope we have is there is an idiot at ESPN who thought he was worthy of "Top Performer". I hope that person is also working for the Bobcats or Cavs.

As one can see, people on Twitter understood that Gay had a bad night. Whoever chooses the “top performer” at ESPN.com, though, disagreed. According to this person, Gay was the top performer for the Raptors last night. And who can argue? Gay did score 29 points. And if you only look at points scored in a box score, then you have to agree Gay was the Raptors “best” player.

But if you understand the other numbers in the box score, you would disagree. In fact, if you simply understood the basic rules of basketball you would have to disagree.

nobody chooses the top performer at espn. it is based on this formula:

it is basically a measure of who was most productive but (obviously) not necessarily efficient, and speaks to the fact that this whole frigging team stinks.

i would imagine rudy gay's trade value is complete dog shit now and really, really wish this team were blown up in the summer as a few posters here were espousing. i see the tenor of the board has changed quite a bit and a lot more are on board with a rebuild, but feel it's way too late to get anything remotely approaching what i would call an asset.

it is basically a measure of who was most productive but (obviously) not necessarily efficient, and speaks to the fact that this whole frigging team stinks.

i would imagine rudy gay's trade value is complete dog shit now and really, really wish this team were blown up in the summer as a few posters here were espousing. i see the tenor of the board has changed quite a bit and a lot more are on board with a rebuild, but feel it's way too late to get anything remotely approaching what i would call an asset.

And people wonder why Masai is playing "wait and see", he's not playing "wait and see", nobody wants Rudy because he's not even worth 1/2 of his contract. Not only that, he's too selfish to assume the role of 3rd option on a contender (which is the role that actually suits his skillset).

He probably has the the worst turnover to contribution-of-any-kind ratio in the whole league.

Here's another stat I bet would be interesting to look up:Does anybody in the league get less points/assists while possessing the ball more?

Gay is one of 5 non-PG players with a Usage % over 30% (Westbrook, Irving and Rose are the PG's that make up the only 8 players to reach 30%). The other 5 are Demarcus Cousins, Carmelo Anthony, Kevin Durant and LeBron James.

Totals - for the fans who just want results and don't care about advanced stats or per 36
*Note: Gay has played 1 more game than Cousins or Durant, the same as Melo and 1 less than LBJ. Every time I want to remind you of this, I'll use the *

271 points, fewest of the group and 96 less than Durant*
Tied with Cousins* with 31 assists on the season - Durant* has 66, LBJ 100 and Melo 37
67 FTA on the season, 28 less than the next lowest, Cousins*
264 FGA on the season, only Melo has shot more and is 30 shots more than LBJ*

For the Per36 fans out there (all players average over 30MPG and as a group avg 35.94)
Only one less than 20 PP36
Lowest assists per36
lowest rebounds per36
lowest FTA per36

Gay is one of 5 non-PG players with a Usage % over 30% (Westbrook, Irving and Rose are the PG's that make up the only 8 players to reach 30%). The other 5 are Demarcus Cousins, Carmelo Anthony, Kevin Durant and LeBron James.

I left out Point Guards because their positional responsibilities are completely different than players at the 3/4. No bias, just simple apples to apples. But since you insist in sticking your bias in, I'll include them. In case you forgot, the original question was whether Gay has the least # of points and assists of players who control the ball the most, so TS% doesn't really apply to answering the question, I merely included it since it is a good indicator of the quality of the scorer.

PPG
Irving and Westbrook are both over 20, which means Gay is only ahead of the rehabbed D. Rose

APG (since you insist on using PGs)
Rudy still is in last

PER
Irving 18 - ahead of Gay but below the previous group
Westbrook 15.8 - almost the same as Gay, but still slightly ahead but below the previous group
Rose 10.7 - congrats Gay, you beat someone!

I left out Point Guards because their positional responsibilities are completely different than players at the 3/4. No bias, just simple apples to apples. But since you insist in sticking your bias in, I'll include them. In case you forgot, the original question was whether Gay has the least # of points and assists of players who control the ball the most, so TS% doesn't really apply to answering the question, I merely included it since it is a good indicator of the quality of the scorer.

PPG
Irving and Westbrook are both over 20, which means Gay is only ahead of the rehabbed D. Rose

APG (since you insist on using PGs)
Rudy still is in last

PER
Irving 18 - ahead of Gay but below the previous group
Westbrook 15.8 - almost the same as Gay, but still slightly ahead but below the previous group
Rose 10.7 - congrats Gay, you beat someone!